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'Ring of fire' eclipse 2021: When, where and how to see the annular solar eclipse on June 10

Northern and eastern sections of North America will experience a weird and dramatic event next Thursday (June 10). A partial solar eclipse will be visible, and for many, it will more or less coincide with sunrise. Only for places north of a line running roughly ...

A SpaceX Dragon will launch fresh NASA supplies to space station today. How to watch live.

A shiny new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take to the skies here from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 1:29 p.m. EDT (1729 GMT). The two-stage launcher will blast off from Pad 39 ...

SpaceX launches new solar arrays to space station, nails rocket landing at sea

Approximately 9 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth, landing on one of SpaceX's drone ships in the Atlantic Ocean in a smooth touchdown. The massive ship, called "Of Course I ...

SpaceX cargo ship launches on mission to upgrade space station electrical grid

Trailing a brilliant orange flame, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into orbit Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a Dragon cargo capsule launching on a two-day trip to the International Space Station with experiments and two new solar ...

SpaceX completes static test-firing for weekend launch

SpaceX ignited a Falcon 9 rocket for a 10-second test-firing early Thursday on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral, clearing a pre-flight check before a mission set to blast off just after midnight Sunday with the SXM 8 radio broadcasting satellite for SiriusXM.

Spacewalkers prepare space station's Russian Pirs module for disposal

Two cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station early Wednesday to wrap up preparations for detaching the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment next month, clearing the way for the long-planned arrival of a new laboratory ...

Front-row view reveals exceptional cosmic explosion

Artist's impression of a relativistic jet of a gamma-ray burst (GRB), breaking out of a collapsing star, and emitting very-high-energy photons. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab. Scientists have gained the best view yet of the brightest explosions in the ...

InSight Mars lander gets a power boost

The lander's robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, helping the wind to carry off some of the panel's dust. The result was a gain of about 30 watt-hours of energy per sol, or Martian day.

Which way does the solar wind blow?

(Top panel, from left to right) July 12, 2012 coronal mass ejection seen in STEREO B Cor2, SOHO C2, and STEREO A Cor2 coronagraphs, respectively. (Bottom panel) The same images overlapped with the model results. Credit: Talwinder Singh, Mehmet S.

Is Earth's core lopsided? Strange goings-on in our planet's interior

For reasons unknown, Earth's solid-iron inner core is growing faster on one side than the other, and it has been ever since it started to freeze out from molten iron more than half a billion years ago, according to a new study by seismologists at the University of ...